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bursage mugwort, ragweed sagebrush
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| Biennials or perennials, 30–100 cm, faintly aromatic (rhizomatous). |
1–3, erect, reddish brown, simple (leafy), glabrous or glabrate. |
basal (in rosettes, petiolate) and cauline, bicolor (white and green); blades ovate, 3–7(–20) × 2–4(–6) cm, 2–3-pinnately-lobed (lobes elliptic, 2–6 mm wide; cauline sessile, smaller), faces tomentose (abaxial) or glabrous or glabrescent (adaxial), glandular. |
broadly ovate, 3–5 × 4–5(–6) mm. |
pistillate 4–5(–13), (1–1.5 mm); bisexual 25–35; corollas yellow, 1.5–2 mm, glabrous. |
broadly ovate, sparsely hairy. |
(nodding, peduncles 0 or 2) in paniculiform to racemiform arrays 10–35 × 2–4 cm (often 1-sided). |
elliptic, 0.5–0.8 mm, glabrous. |
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| Flowering late summer–early fall. |
| Open coniferous forests, mid to upper montane |
| 2200–3100 m (7200–10200 ft) |
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AZ; CO; NM; Mexico (Chihuahua)
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| FNA vol. 19, p. 525. |
| Asteraceae > tribe Anthemideae > Artemisia > subg. Artemisia |
A. abrotanum, A. absinthium, A. alaskana, A. aleutica, A. annua, A. arbuscula, A. biennis, A. bigelovii, A. borealis, A. californica, A. campestris, A. cana, A. carruthii, A. douglasiana, A. dracunculus, A. filifolia, A. frigida, A. furcata, A. globularia, A. glomerata, A. laciniata, A. longifolia, A. ludoviciana, A. michauxiana, A. nesiotica, A. norvegica, A. nova, A. packardiae, A. palmeri, A. papposa, A. pattersonii, A. pedatifida, A. pontica, A. porteri, A. pycnocephala, A. pygmaea, A. rigida, A. rothrockii, A. rupestris, A. scopulorum, A. senjavinensis, A. serrata, A. spiciformis, A. stelleriana, A. suksdorfii, A. tilesii, A. tridentata, A. tripartita, A. vulgaris |
| Greene: Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 10: 42. (1883) |
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